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All of these arguments apply in guerilla warzones (eg. Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia) and while insurgents there have certainly been capable of inflicting casualties a
by nostrademons 7y ago
All of these arguments apply in guerilla warzones (eg. Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia) and while insurgents there have certainly been capable of inflicting casualties and denying the U.S. its strategic objectives, they also couldn't stop millions of their countrymen (and usually themselves) from being killed. Winning is cold comfort when everybody is dead.
- dbsizbdj 7y agoCold comfort? Your country’s freedom? Your sister’s and your daughter’s honor? Which man wouldn’t die to protect his children from an invading horde of assassins and rapists? Vietnam freed itself from two Western Imperial powers and then stoped the Khmer Rouge in the span of just 30 years. Today it’s a thriving, if poor country.
- epicureanideal 7y agoExcept the Vietnamese were not living among the Americans in the same cities. That would've complicated matters a lot. Would we have carpet bombed Chicago? Napalmed people hiding out in Yosemite?